HETEROMORPHA. 24! 



Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. v. (i) p. in (1825); Stephens, 

 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 14 (1828); Walker, List 

 Lepid. Ins. Brit. Mus. v. p. 1081 (1855). 



Euphragis y Hiibner, Verz. bek. Schmett. p. 194 (1822). 



Diloba, Boisduval, Gen. Ind. Meth. p. 88 (1840). 



This is a small genus of rather doubtful position, being 

 placed by some entomologists with the Noctucz. The body 

 is stout, with the thorax slightly crested, with lateral fasciae, and 

 the abdomen, which extends a little beyond the hind-wings, 

 is tufted at the extremity. The antennae are pectinated to the 

 tips in the male, and the legs and palpi are very hairy ; the 

 hind tibiae are armed with four spurs. Wings long and rather 

 narrow, with the hind margin rounded. 



THE FIGURE OF EIGHT MOTH. HETEROMORPHA 

 CiERULEOCEPHALA. 



Bombyx caruleocephala, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. (ed. x.) i. p. 504, 



no. 38 (1758); id. Faun. Suec. p. 296 (1761); Esper, 



Schmett. iii. p. 288, Taf. 58, figs. 1-4 (1786); Hiibner, 



Eur. Schmett. iii. fig. 196 (1800?). 

 Episema cczritleocephala, Treitschke, Schmett. Eur. v. (i) p. 



112 (1825); Stephens, 111. Brit. Ent. Haust. ii. p. 15 



(1828). 

 Noctna c&ruleocephala, Godart, Lepid. France, vi. p. 187, pi. 



85, fig. i (1826). 

 Diloba carukocephala, Kirby, Eur. Butterflies and Moths/ p; 



146 (1880); Buckler, Larvae of Brit. Lepid. iii. p. i, pi. 



36, fig. i (1889); Barrett, Lepid. British iii. p. 175, ph 



115, figs. 2, 2^-^(1895). 

 Heteromorpha carukocephala^ Kirby, Cat. Lepid. Heter. i. p. 585 



(1892). 

 This pretty species is an inhabitant of Europe and Western 



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